Progressive Records

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Progressive Records
Parent companyJazzology
Founded1950 (1950)
Founder Gus Statiras
GenreJazz
Country of originU.S.
Location New Orleans, Louisiana
Official website jazzology.com

Progressive Records is an American jazz record company and label owned by the Jazzology group. It produces reissues and compilations of musicians such as Sonny Stitt, Eddie Barefield, George Masso, and Eddie Miller. [1]

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History

Progressive Records was founded by Gus Statiras in New York in 1950. When the business declined, Savoy bought and reissued much of the label's catalog, [2] then sold it to Prestige [3] [4] with backing from Bainbridge, a Japanese record company. [5]

Progressive had a revival in the late 1970s when Statiras bought the label back from Fantasy, which by then had absorbed Prestige, which continued into the 1980s. Progressive's second era included recordings by Buddy DeFranco, Scott Hamilton, J. R. Monterose, and Al Haig. [3] [5]

In the 1980s, Progressive was acquired by George Buck and his Jazzology group and is owned by the George H. Buck Jr. Jazz Foundation. [6] [4]

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References

  1. "Progressive Records Catalog". www.jazzology.com.
  2. Davis, John S. (2012). Historical Dictionary of Jazz. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 296.
  3. 1 2 "Gus Statiras: 1923-2004". www.jazzhouse.org.
  4. 1 2 Gardner, Mark (2002). Kernfeld, Barry (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Vol. 3 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries. p. 331. ISBN   1-56159-284-6.
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  6. Yanow, Scott (1998). "Labels". In Erlewine, Michael; Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; Yanow, Scott (eds.). All Music Guide to Jazz (3rd ed.). San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books. ISBN   0-87930-530-4.